GoGo squeeZ applesauce a tasty, healthful snack for kids

GoGo squeeZ Applesauce. Apple, Applebanana, Applepeach, Applecinnamon and Applestrawberry. 99 cents per 3.2-ounce pouch or $2.99 per four-pouch box.

Bonnie: GoGo squeeZ is a new applesauce modeled on Yoplait's pioneering GoGurt squeezable yogurt in a tube. GoGurt contains artificially Day-Glo colored, artificially flavored yogurt that's sweetened with both sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in a flimsy tube. (Read: Can be messy.)

GoGo is 100 percent apples, sweetened with apple juice concentrate, in a sturdy pouch with a reclosable top. This means GoGo squeeZ is less likely to be messy and, if your youngster doesn't finish the whole serving, it can be refrigerated for later eating. Just don't leave this small cap alone with a child young enough to mistake it for something tasty.

The Applecinnamon is my favorite, as it's the least sweet, with only 9.3 grams of natural apple sugar, or about the same as Mott's Healthy Harvest single serves. I recommend either of these lines for your kids' or your own lunch.

Carolyn: These new GoGo squeeZ Applesauces are as interesting a cultural marker as they are a food product — for instance, as an example of just how far off-the-radar space exploration has become. Although these sturdy little pouches were originally designed for NASA astronauts, that fact is not mentioned in either the product's advertising or packaging.

Eating from them is still fun — the size, shape and resealability reminded me of a whiskey bottle, with quite tasty and much-better-for-you contents. This junk foodie didn't even miss the sugar that is not added (although it's hard to miss the irony of all-natural applesauce being packaged in what is probably highly environmentally unfriendly sturdy plastic pouches).

It's also a little sad that eating in go-go America has devolved to the point where solo slurping out of pouches is praised by me and Bonnie!

Pillsbury Grands! Jr. Golden Layers Refrigerated Biscuits. Buttermilk, Butter Tastin', Flaky, Honey Butter. 89 cents per 6-ounce tube or $1.29 per 12-ounce tube.

Bonnie: These new Pillsbury Grands! Jr. biscuits are halfway between regular Grands! and Pillsbury's regular biscuits in a can, in terms of size and nutrition.

That means one of these new Grands! Jr. biscuits provides about 100 calories and 4 grams of total fat (of which 1 gram is saturated and 1 gram is trans fat), with about 350 milligrams of sodium. Those values are about half of what's in a regular Grands! and are a big improvement. I still wish Pillsbury had used this opportunity to remove the trans fats from all its Grands!